Attached is a patch enabling resolution of emoji domain names on programs that use libidn2. It patches the script get-tables-from-iana.pl to set the state of emoji characters to PVALID, and uses the experimental perl "smartmatch" operator, which may make it unacceptable. Nevertheless, I believe that it provides a proof that a solution is possible, and might prove useful to people having to resolve such domains from a console application, so I am posting it here. It is provided with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. However, this patch does not affect applications using glibc to resolve domains. As such, I am tagging this as an issue in glibc, too.
Of course, I understand that IANA disallows the use of emojis in domain names. Perhaps a solution could be to resolve these domains, but print a warning on the user's console? I do not have time to think about this. ** Patch added: "gen-tables-from-iana.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libidn2-0/+bug/1771109/+attachment/5139707/+files/gen-tables-from-iana.patch ** Also affects: glibc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1771109 Title: Domain names containing emoji characters are not supported in console applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1771109/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
